The Queensland Reds' amazing rise is set to see them surpass the Brisbane Broncos as south-east Queensland's biggest football club drawcards.
The Reds, cellar dwellers two seasons ago, are expected to sell out Suncorp Stadium for the second time this year when they host the Auckland-based Blues in Saturday night's Super Rugby semi-final.
Less than 10,000 tickets remain for the match where a Queensland victory would enable the Reds to host the July 9 final.
Crowds are already up by 29 per cent in 2011, with an average attendance of 29,436 watching the Reds win seven of their eight home games in their charge to top of the competition standings.
A 50,000-strong crowd for Saturday's clash with the Blues would give the Reds a season average of 31,723 eclipsing the current mark of NRL giants the Broncos, who are attracting 30,932 per game.
The Reds have already leapfrogged the Brisbane Lions (22,150) in the hot-ticket stakes for the first time since before the AFL club won three consecutive premierships.
The fledgling Gold Coast Suns (19,684), Gold Coast Titans (16,606) and A-League champions Brisbane Roar (12,619) also fall behind.
The Reds have already set an Australian Super Rugby crowd once this year when 48,301 packed in to watch Queensland defeat the Crusaders 17-16 a month ago.
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The Super Rugby Final between the Reds and Crusaders broke the all-time international Super Rugby attendance record with 52,113 supporters flocking through the gates, bringing the team’s season crowd attendance average to a record 33,253 fans per home game.
Notice how the union code likes to add the finals to their average?
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I added all the Reds games, and the result was even worse.
Beaussie, I'm afraid you're in trouble. The article you quoted was BS.
And therefore Beaussies claim was BS by association. sorry Beaussie.
This will make people think twice before posting links which contain data that can be easily disproved, which in the end will probably be a good thing.
King-Eliagh: ...I believe [RL] is popular in all the other states and territories, bar tasmania.
The Queensland Reds' amazing rise is set to see them surpass the Brisbane Broncos as south-east Queensland's biggest football club drawcards.
The Reds, cellar dwellers two seasons ago, are expected to sell out Suncorp Stadium for the second time this year when they host the Auckland-based Blues in Saturday night's Super Rugby semi-final.
Less than 10,000 tickets remain for the match where a Queensland victory would enable the Reds to host the July 9 final.
Crowds are already up by 29 per cent in 2011, with an average attendance of 29,436 watching the Reds win seven of their eight home games in their charge to top of the competition standings.
A 50,000-strong crowd for Saturday's clash with the Blues would give the Reds a season average of 31,723 eclipsing the current mark of NRL giants the Broncos, who are attracting 30,932 per game.
The Reds have already leapfrogged the Brisbane Lions (22,150) in the hot-ticket stakes for the first time since before the AFL club won three consecutive premierships.
The fledgling Gold Coast Suns (19,684), Gold Coast Titans (16,606) and A-League champions Brisbane Roar (12,619) also fall behind.
The Reds have already set an Australian Super Rugby crowd once this year when 48,301 packed in to watch Queensland defeat the Crusaders 17-16 a month ago.
AAP
The Super Rugby Final between the Reds and Crusaders broke the all-time international Super Rugby attendance record with 52,113 supporters flocking through the gates, bringing the team’s season crowd attendance average to a record 33,253 fans per home game.
Notice how the union code likes to add the finals to their average?
Still think I'm being bias you sook?
King-Eliagh: ...I believe [RL] is popular in all the other states and territories, bar tasmania.
Mate, I absolutely murdered nswafl in that RFL bs file, absolutely killed him and you backed him all the way, yet he was busted posting naughty sites, he used facebook and wiki, half the sites he put in didn't even work and he's still claiming ar is played in 70+ countries.
I posted sponsors, nswafl posted none
I posted teams and Leagues, nswafl posted fake websites.
I posted tv coverage, nswafl posted nothing.
I posted playing numbers, nswafl posted a random number without proof.
and on and on and on it went, yet I didn't get the point all because you and he got stuck on some bloody notion that I had to find so many Leagues in the UK, I put down the playing numbers with 285,000 players, yet this wasn't good enough. Sometimes a league will have only 2 or 4 teams in it. BARLA a;long have over 1400 senior teams, I bet they don't play everyone once a season, would they?
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Mate, I absolutely murdered nswafl in that RFL bs file, absolutely killed him and you backed him all the way, yet he was busted posting naughty sites, he used facebook and wiki, half the sites he put in didn't even work and he's still claiming ar is played in 70+ countries.
I posted sponsors, nswafl posted none
I posted teams and Leagues, nswafl posted fake websites.
I posted tv coverage, nswafl posted nothing.
I posted playing numbers, nswafl posted a random number without proof.
and on and on and on it went, yet I didn't get the point all because you and he got stuck on some bloody notion that I had to find so many Leagues in the UK, I put down the playing numbers with 285,000 players, yet this wasn't good enough. Sometimes a league will have only 2 or 4 teams in it. BARLA a;long have over 1400 senior teams, I bet they don't play everyone once a season, would they?
You sure did but none of these figures showed a factor of 50 times, which is what you claimed. Even the clearly bias EK agreed it was undecided, so accuse him for bias against you then too!
And the others?
King-Eliagh: ...I believe [RL] is popular in all the other states and territories, bar tasmania.